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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Multisensory Structured Language Education






2. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






4. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






5. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






6. Academic Language Therapy Association






7. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






8. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






10. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






11. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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12. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






13. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






14. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






15. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






16. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






17. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






18. Closed syllable






19. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






20. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






21. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






22. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






23. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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24. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






25. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






26. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






27. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






28. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






29. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






30. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






31. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






32. Feeling through fingertips






33. Multisensory Structured Language






34. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






35. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






36. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






37. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






38. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






39. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






40. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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41. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






42. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






43. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






44. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






45. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






46. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






47. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






48. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






49. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






50. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.